The JungleHuge Print Press, 1920 - 413 pages 1906 bestseller shockingly reveals intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards as it tells the brutally grim story of a Slavic family that emigrates to America full of optimism but soon descends into numbing poverty, moral degradation, and despair. A fiercely realistic American classic that will haunt readers long after they've finished the last page. |
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... drink . If you went in not intending to drink , you would be put out in no time , and if you were slow about going , like as not you would get your head split open with a beer - bottle in the bargain . But all of the men understood the ...
... drink . If you went in not intending to drink , you would be put out in no time , and if you were slow about going , like as not you would get your head split open with a beer - bottle in the bargain . But all of the men understood the ...
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... drink . He was working in the steaming pit of hell ; day after day , week after week - until now there was not an organ of his body that did its work without pain , until the sound of ocean breakers echoed in his head day and night ...
... drink . He was working in the steaming pit of hell ; day after day , week after week - until now there was not an organ of his body that did its work without pain , until the sound of ocean breakers echoed in his head day and night ...
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... drink now and then , a drink for its own sake , and apart from the food that came with it . The craving for it was strong enough to master every other consideration - he would have it , though it were his last nickel and he had to ...
... drink now and then , a drink for its own sake , and apart from the food that came with it . The craving for it was strong enough to master every other consideration - he would have it , though it were his last nickel and he had to ...
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